What: This project will investigate the processes that formed the Salinian arc of central coastal California. Participants will spend two weeks in the Big Sur region making field measurements and identifying and collecting critical samples for...

What: This project will evaluate the potential activity of the Leech River and San Juan Fault systems, two major crustal faults that underlie the capital city of Victoria, British Columbia on Vancouver Island, Canada. Current scientific thought suggests that these...

What: This Keck project will investigate the role of beaver in the sediment and carbon budgets of small catchments (<10 km2) in the central Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Working within Huntingon Wildlife Forest (managed by SUNY-ESF), our geomorphic...

What: Human activities have enhanced nutrient delivery to coastal ecosystems in the northern Gulf of Mexico which has led to extensive eutrophication. By comparing populations living in the region today with the remains of historical populations preserved in marine...

What: A field-based conservation research project using paleontological, sedimentological, and geochemical tools to address modern environmental concerns. When: Early July-Early August Where: Students will spend the first week in Wisconsin, collecting cores and...

What: The “big picture”—there is a long-standing effort to understand the mechanisms of explosive lava–water interaction on Earth and Mars. It is important to be able to distinguish those volcanic features on Mars that have formed from exclusively by “dry” volcanic...